Gaardsoe and Moore miss Bolton trip

West Bromwich Albion are without central defenders Thomas Gaardsoe and Darren Moore for tomorrow’s trip to Bolton.

West Bromwich Albion are without central defenders Thomas Gaardsoe and Darren Moore for tomorrow’s trip to Bolton.

Gaardsoe is serving a one-match ban after being sent-off at Manchester City on Tuesday. Moore will miss his fourth successive game with a knee injury.

Versatile defender Riccardo Scimeca is a major doubt with an ankle injury and Scimeca, who is an ever present this season, has only been given a 50-50 chance of recovering in time from the problem that he picked up at Manchester City on Tuesday.

Albion will have striker Kanu and midfielder Jason Koumas available again.

Kanu has missed the last two games with a virus while Koumas missed the 1-1 draw at City through illness.

Albion also hope to boosted by the availability of Cosmin Contra.

He was ruled out of the clash with City as he was serving a one-match ban after being sent-off against Liverpool on Boxing Day.

Contra is now bidding to shake off a back injury in time to face Bolton.

Provisional squad: Hoult, Scimeca, Purse, Clement, Haas, Johnson, Greening, Gera, Earnshaw, Kanu, Wallwork, Hulse, Horsfield, Koumas, Albrechtsen, Robinson, Contra, Dyer, Sakiri, Kuszczak.

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